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The placebo effect is the phenomenon whereby a patient’s symptoms can be improved by treatment with a harmless substance, ie a substance with no effects directly related to the treatment of symptoms or disease.

The postulated physiological explanation for this phenomenon would be the stimulation of a specific brain area that would result in the improvement of patient’s symptom picture.

The patient may influenced self by the feeling of being treated or the hope of healing, and as a result may be better or facilitate recovery. This phenomenon does not work as effectively or in all patients or all diseases. Read the rest of this entry »

Homeopathy is possibly the most fashionable pseudomedicina that is in recent times. The creation of a Chair of Homeopathy at the University of Zaragoza or programming by the UNED of three Masters courses is taught in this pseudoscience are proof.

The term homeopathy comes from the ideas of Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1775-1843), a German doctor who said that (at the time, never forget the context) the pill would cause more suffering than benefit the patient. After leaving the practice of medicine in 1794, Hahnemann first used the word in their work Indications of the Employment of Homeopathic Medicines in Ordinary Practice (“Indications for use homeopathic medicines in routine practice). Read the rest of this entry »